Sarah Drury is a media artist working in video, digital/interactive performance and installation, and collaborative methodologies. Her works draw on the conceptual innovations presented by media technologies and the critical approaches to embodiment and social spaces.  Her works have been presented nationally and internationally, including Relational Paradigms, a series of videos and installations exploring adoption and the racialized body; The Walking Project, developing and using wearable devices for media performance, in collaboration with artists inhabiting various identifications with disabilities (with support from the National Endowment for the Arts) and Violet Fire: a Multimedia Opera About Nikola Tesla, presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival and the National Theater of Belgrade.  She has presented her work and writing at new media exhibition sites and conferences including the International Symposium for Electronic Arts (ISEA), the Cornell Sound Cultures Symposium, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, SIGGRAPH, the Brooklyn Museum, The Kitchen, the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, the Worldwide Video Festival and Hallwalls. She has curated group exhibitions in mobile augmented reality (mAR) including Torn Exteriors, a group show of geolocated mAR works in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and Mechanics of Place (in collaboration with Hana Iverson), an online platform for the creation of mAR images that can bring together participating artists to address a specific location, such as a neighborhood in Istanbul where the piece was initially presented.  Sarah Drury is an associate professor at the Temple University Film & Media Arts Program and has been on the faculty member of the NYU Art & Media Program and the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program. 

Contact

sdrury@temple.edu